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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
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1. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






2. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






3. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






4. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






5. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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6. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






7. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






8. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






9. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






10. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






11. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






12. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






13. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






14. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






15. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






16. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






17. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






18. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






19. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






20. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






21. Feeling through fingertips






22. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






23. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






24. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






25. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






26. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






27. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






28. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






29. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






30. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






31. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






32. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






33. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






34. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






35. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






36. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






37. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






38. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






39. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






40. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






41. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






42. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






43. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






44. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






45. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






46. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






47. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






48. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






49. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






50. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.